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Ugh, I have enough candy to evolve nearly all of these but finding these arbitrary items is going to take forever. I mean, I understand why they made items to distinguish branches evolutions, but why do we need an item for all of them?

Okay, so basically the news is spin pokéstops. Obviously something I haven't been doing so far....lol, sorry, this is actually a good article as not everyone are long time pokémon players like myself.

@Damo I have tens of thousands of pokémon hours under my belt & I made the slowbro/slowpoke evolution mistake as well. It's easily done as you don't evolve them often (I think I still have my Gen 3 in my Sun pokébox).

@thesilverbrick It's likely just to artificially slow things down as this Gen hasn't got quite as many new pokémon as Gen 1. It's going to take them quite a while to make Gen 3 a reality. It's frustrating, but it does buy them time to add in updates like trading etc. as well as Gen 3 down the line.

Wish they'd had a system where you can use the candy for that Pokémon to buy the evolution items, then evolve it. Rather than need both at once and rely on finding the item. It's gonna be very hard to get them I would think.